Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:48:42 -0500
From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
To: Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: Quote MML tags in replies
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LGTM and I think it could go in despite my two comments below.

Quoth Aaron Ecay on Jan 19 at  1:43 pm:
> Emacs message-mode uses certain text strings to indicate how to attach
> files to outgoing mail.  If these are present in the text of an email,
> and a user is tricked into replying to the message, the user’s files
> could be exposed.
> ---
> 
> To demonstrate this, open a reply to this message then remove the
> exclamation marks after the hash marks below.  Create a file in your
> home directory called passwd.  Then press C-u M-x mml-preview.  A
> (possibly base64-encoded) version of your ~/passwd file will replace
> the following lines:
> 
> <#!part type="application/octet-stream" filename="~/passwd"
> disposition=attachment description=foo>
> <#!/part>
> 
> It works equally well (and more dangerously) with /etc/passwd, but I
> didn't use that filename here to avoid the danger of someone
> accidentally attaching their /etc/passwd to a reply in this thread!
> 
>  emacs/notmuch-mua.el |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-mua.el b/emacs/notmuch-mua.el
> index d8ab822..c25c6b9 100644
> --- a/emacs/notmuch-mua.el
> +++ b/emacs/notmuch-mua.el
> @@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ list."
>      (push-mark))
>    (set-buffer-modified-p nil)
>  
> -  (message-goto-body))
> +  (message-goto-body)
> +  (mml-quote-region (point) (mark)))

Did you consider using point-max instead of mark?  IIRC, that mark was
very recently introduced which, perhaps irrationally, makes it seem
less future-proof to me.

>  
>  (defun notmuch-mua-forward-message ()
>    (message-forward)

Speaking of future-proofing, it would be good to have a test.